Power plant for residual materials

At an event followed by a guided tour of the paper mill Rondo about the planned residual fuel power plant. The event attracted around 50 interested people who wanted to find out more about the project and the circular economy at Rondo.

The company showed how High-quality corrugated base paper from waste paper and how impurities and fibres that are too short are separated out as residues during waste paper processing. These can later be utilised in the power plant as a raw material for energy generation.

„At Rondo, we live the circular economy. The collected waste paper is not only used to produce base paper and, in a later step, corrugated cardboard packaging. We also produce high-quality cast fibre products from the same raw material. This shows how resource-efficient and sustainable our products are. Rondo's plans to build a waste-fuelled power plant reinforce its commitment to a production process that does away with fossil fuels and effectively recycles its own waste materials.“

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Udo Nachbaur, Chief Technical Officer of Rondo Ganahl AG

In future, the paper mill will cover its own thermal energy requirements with the waste-fuelled power plant. Thanks to a connection to the Frastanzer E-Werke grid, surplus heat will be supplied to the local Frastanz brewery and up to 500 additional households. The power plant is mainly fuelled by residues from paper production and the Vorarlberg industry.